Estimated Value and Present Population of the United States [pp. 178-184]

ESTIMATED VALUE AND POPULATION
is 174,000,000 of acres, or 275,000 square miles; the last,
Minnesota, has been admitted so lately that we have no authority about her size, so we set it down at 70,000 square
miles.
The present estimated valuation of the different States and
Territories is taken principally from the legislative returns,
&c., except in the case of Pennsylvania, whose valuation is
rated at over $550,000,000, the same as Georgia, although
she has near three times as many inhabitants, while the valuation of 1850 gave her $722,486,120; she is now worth over
one thousand millions of dollars!
The population assigned to the New-England States is
based upon the estimates of the Yankees and the natural increase of the country. The report of 1857 gave Massachusetts
1, 188,000. The State census of 1855 gave New-York 3,466,000. The report of 1856 gave New-Jersey 570,000. Pennsylvania probably exceeds what is assigned to her. Governor
Chase gives Ohio the same as the above. Indiana is slightly
over the above estimate. The census of 1855 gave Illinois
1,305,000, and proved that her time of duplication was still
decennial, and by the ninth census, she will surpass Ohio, and
ranlt third on the numerical roll of the States. The inaccurate census of 1856 gave Iowa 509,000. The incomplete
census of 1857 gave Minnesota 145,000. The census of 1852
gave California 308,507,' and the report of [857 gave her
507,000. The recent inaccurate census of Oregon, 42,850
souls, and $1S,000,000 taxable property; but her Senator
Lane estimates her population at 90,000; now one is too low
and the other. is too high; it is probably about 75,000, as her
vote would seem to indicate.
The value given to Virginia and Massachusetts is official,
given in round numbers. The registration report of last year
makes South Carolina less than 670,000, an increase of only
a few hundreds, it is most probably a mistake. The number
assigned is what she should be now. The census of 1855
gave Georgia 930,000, and the report of 1857 gave her value
$528,000,000, an increase of $33,000,000. The estimate
given to Alabama is probably too low. The report of 1857
gives MIississippi a slave population of 335,000, and which
would indicate that her population was then near 700,000.
The recent ]incomplete census of Louisiana returned her inhabitants at 646,971, and her worth at $378,604,232. The
report of 1855 gave Arkansas 278,000, and that of 1858,
318,000.
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